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Of all the Addresses, that which touched me most nearly, 

 and was at the same time the most beautiful and artistic, was 

 that presented to me by my students in the form of an 

 illuminated book containing the following words with the 

 signatures of a great number of my pupils. 



Address from Old Students of Owens College : 



We, the undersigned, all of whom have the honour to number our- 

 selves among your pupils, desire on the occasion of the celebration of the 

 Fiftieth Anniversary of the date of your Graduation as a Doctor of 

 Philosophy of the U'niversity of Heidelberg to offer you our hearty con- 

 gratulations, and to express our pleasure that you are able to be with us 

 in health and strength to receive this testimony of our gratitude and 

 esteem. 



The half century which has elapsed since the day of your ' Doctor pro- 

 motion summa-cum-laude ' has witnessed an extraordinary development 

 in that branch of natural knowledge to which you have particularly 

 devoted yourself. We recall with pride in how large a measure your own 

 labours have contributed to that growth by your work as an original 

 investigator, by your literary productions, by your remarkable and almost 

 unexampled success as a teacher, by the influence you have exerted in the 

 organisation and direction of Societies concerned with Science, by your 

 unceasing and well-directed efforts to secure for Science its due position 

 in the scheme of national education, and the fuller recognition of its rela- 

 tions to the well-being of civilised communities. 



It was your good fortune at the outset of your career to come under the 

 influence of illustrious chemical philosophers Graham, Williamson, 

 Bunsen. Your good fortune has been our great gain. You have not only 

 worthily upheld the traditions associated with such names, but you have 

 inspired others by your example. Your influence is to be seen in the 

 creation of the great School of Chemistry in which you laboured for thirty 

 years and in which you taught hundreds of pupils ; it is equally felt in the 

 many similar places throughout this kingdom which are modelled upon 

 the lines which you indicated, and which are to-day actuated by your 

 method and example. 



We gratefully recall the obligations that we are under to you as our 

 teacher, and we cherish the memory of the signal services you have 

 rendered to the Institution of which we are proud to be members. You 

 came to it in the days of its precarious infancy, you assisted to rear it into 

 a vigorous youth, sharing its aspirations and stimulating its endeavours ; 

 you behold it now of age and entering upon a great career. 



That you should have lived to see and enjoy this fruition of your labours 

 is a matter of special gratification to us as it must be to you. Blessed 

 with continuing health and happiness may you long be spared to witness 

 its growth in prosperity and usefulness. 



My reply was as follows : 



Of all gratifying and far too flattering Addresses which I am to-day 

 receiving, none come so near to my heart as that signed by 300 of my 

 former students. 



What can a teacher value more than the sympathy and good opinion 

 of his pupils, and this you have given me in full measure. 



